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Ageism refers to the belief that those with physical or mental disabilities or handicaps are superior to able-bodied people.
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All people have their own sets of personal values that come from society, families, religious, experiences and working environment.
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“Dominant over Nature” leads to the “____________”, which proposes that all people should have______ rights, and each should have complete control over one’s own destiny.
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原文:I’m delighted to convey to all the guests here and the Chinese people warm greetings and sincere wishes of the government and people of my country.译文:我很高兴向_________和中国人民转达我国政府和人民的________和_________。
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“Dominant over Nature” leads to the “____________”, which proposes that all people should have______ rights, and each should have complete control over one’s own destiny.
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______ refers to the mental and emotional processes and the physical activities of people who purchase and use goods and services to satisfy particular needs and wants.
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Soft drinks, water, alcohol, coffee and juice are all beverages that people could purchase to drink; this is an example of _________.
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The key for its success is its response to the urgent desire of countries along the belt and road to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, the idea of openness and inclusiveness shared by all the people in the world.
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Hot dishes are the main course, and usually there are even numbers of hot dishes, four, six or eight, because Chinese people believe that all good things come in pairs.
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It helps to relieve the_____both physically and mentally.
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The Declaration of Independence announced that all people are born equal and have some unalienable rights. These rights do NOT include _______
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Poor housing and family stress can （ ） both physical and mental health.
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Unconsciously, we all keep a comfortable distance around us when we interact with other people. This space between us and another person<u>(1)</u>invisible walls.
The<u>(2)</u>of space changes<u>(3)</u>on the nature of the relationship. For<u>(4)</u>, we are usually more comfortable standing closer to family members<u>(5)</u>to strangers. Personality<u>(6)</u>determines the size of the area<u>(7)</u>we are comfortable when talking to people. Introverts (性格内向的人) often prefer<u>(8)</u>with others<u>(9)</u>a greater distance than do extroverts. Cultural styles are important too. A Japanese employer and employee usually stand<u>(10)</u>apart while talking than their American counterparts. Latin Americans and Arabs<u>(11)</u>to stand closer than Americans do when talking.
For Americans, the usual distance in social conversation<u>(12)</u>from about an arm&39;s<u>(13)</u>to four feet. Less space in the American culture may be<u>(14)</u>with either greater intimacy<u>(15)</u>aggressive behavior. The common practice of saying, "Excuse me," for the slightest<u>(16)</u>touching of another person<u>(17)</u>how uncomfortable Americans are if people get too<u>(18)</u>. In cultures<u>(19)</u>close physical contact is<u>(20)</u>and even desirable, Americans may be perceived (感觉认为) as cold and distant.
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Radio and TV made an appeal______all kinds of people in the country.
A．in
B．on
C．to
D．about
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Research shows that people's physical and mental health ______.
A．relies on the social welfare systems which support them
B．has much to do with the amount of support they get from others
C．depends on their ability to deal with daily worries and troubles
D．is closely related to their strength for coping with major changes in their lives
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When the fire broke out, almost all the people lost their_____and ran in all directions.
A．minds
B．heads
C．hearts
D．brains
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Nicholas Chauvin, a French soldier, aired his veneration of Napoleon Bonaparte so______and unceasingly that he became the laughingstock of all people in Europe.
A．vociferously
B．patriotically
C．verbosely
D．loquaciously
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I shouldn't let it bother me. It really doesn't matter anyway. But it does bother me ! All those people are preparing to【21】a new century, a new millennium (千年) as well. And it just isn't【22】!
Most of us schedule our lives by the Gregorian【23】. Our years are measured from the【24】of Christ. The first year of the first century is 1, or 1 A.D. The last year of that century is the year 100. Simple？ Yes! A century is 100【25】long. A millennium is 1,000 years long, which is【26】ten centuries.
Since the last year of the first century is the year 100, the first year of the【27】century is 101. Follow that pattern, century by century and you'll get my【28】. The year 2000 is the last year of the twentieth century. After all,【29】thousand means twenty hundreds. Twenty hundred years means twenty centuries. The year 2000 is the【30】, the final, the one that's still here, year of the twentieth century!!!!
I know, I'm getting too【31】. But it isn't fair, While most people will really be enjoying this coming【32】celebration, those of us in the know will be yawning. Everyone else will be【33】for the new millennium and we'll be saying, "It's not until next year."
I don't agree with the【34】, "Ignorance is bliss." But in this case, perhaps it's【35】.
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A．get
B．bring
C．celebrate
D．cheer
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I am discovering that many people want, above all else, to live life fully. But sometimes the past prohibits our living and enjoying life to the utmost in the present.
A schoolteacher【26】his room a few minutes early and【27】a mealworm laboriously craw- ling along the floor. It had somehow been【28】. The back part of the worm was dead and dried up, but still attached to the【29】living part by just a thin thread.
As the teacher【30】the strange sight of a poor worm【31】its dead half across the floor, a little girl ran in and noticed it there. Picking it up, she said," Oh, Oscar, when are you going to【32】that dead part so you can really live？"
What a marvelous【33】for all of us ! When are we going to lose that dead part so we can re- ally live？ When are we going to let go of past pain so we can live【34】？ When are we going to drop the baggage of needless guilt so we can【35】life？ When are we going to let go of that past resentment so we can know peace？
Have you been dragging something that is dead and gone around with you？ Are you ready to lose that dead part so you can really live？
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A．entered
B．left
C．rushed
D．slipped
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The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition - and I told the sisters: You take care of the other three. I take care of this one who looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand as she said just the words "Thank you" and she died.
I could not help but examine my conscience before her and I asked what I would say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more - she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. So did that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. "I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for", he said at the end . And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel - this is the greatness of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus has said: I was hungry, I was naked, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it to me.
And with this prize that I received as a Prize of Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people who have no home. Because I believe that love begins at home and if we can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be the good news to the poor, the poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But to a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from society, that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable… And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
What can be learned from the second paragraph？
A．The woman should have paid more attention to herself.
B．The man couldn' t blame anyone.
C．The author is religious.
D．The man died in the street.
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I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony's “Funeral Oration”, Grey's “Elegy”, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.
He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc. , and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms--a bedroom and a sitting room--in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.
We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father ________.
A．made an important contribution
B．insisted that he choose writing as a career
C．opposed his becoming a writer
D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer
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The onrush of cheap communications, powerful computers and the Internet all explain why many people feel that, nowadays, change is happening ever more rapidly as technological progress accelerates. Moore's law, that the power of microchips doubles every 18 months, has been tested and found correct. This is what gives people the sense of a world shifting beneath their feet.
2. Yet the implication that rapid change is a new phenomenon is again misleading. If you measure the time it takes for a technology to become widely diffused, today's experience does not seem unusual. Take the car. The basic patent for an internal-combustion engine capable of powering a car was fried in 1877. By the late 1920s—50 years later—over half of all American households owned a car.
3. The comparable dates for the computer axe harder to tie down, but the first big computer, based on vacuum valves, was built in 1946. The transistor—the first semiconductor device—was invented at Bell Laboratories in 1948. The first patent for an integrated circuit was filed in 1959. Now, in 1999-50 years after the first one was built—around half of American households own a computer. The pace of introduction has been similar to that of the car.
4. You have to cheat, choosing only the date for the personal computer, say(mid-1970s), or the internet (ditto) to make it seem much more rapid.
Comparing its diffusion among private users is, you might say, unfair to the computer, for that machine's main use is in businesses. On that measure, the best historical analogy is with electrification, and the spread of the electric dynamo into factories.
5. According to Paul David, a historian at Stanford University in California, the first electricity-generating stations had been installed in New York and London in 1881, but it was well into the 1920s before the dynamo became widely used and started to raise productivity. The adoption of the computer in business has also been slow, and failed to have any measurable impact on productivity until very recently.
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Among the most popular books being written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles are published every year and are read by all kinds of people.Furthermore,
A、Hundreds of titles are published every year.
B、All kinds of people love it.
C、Some of the most successful films of recent years have been based on science fiction stories.
D、Science fiction can be found in books written hundreds of years ago.
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All young people must （） reality and not kid themselves that the world owes them a living.
